In passing we should note this curious mark of our age: The only absolute allowed is the absolute insistence that there is no absolute

In passing, we should note this curious mark of our own age: the only absolute allowed is the absolute insistence that there is no absolute.

Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth.

We don't regard any scientific theory as the absolute truth.

The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh.

Imitation finds no place at all in morality, and examples serve only for encouragement, that is, they put beyond doubt the feasibility of what the law commands, they make visible that which the practical rule expresses more generally, but they can never authorize us to set aside the true original which lies in reason, and to guide ourselves by examples.